Stupeflix announced today, at the Business Video Expo, that they are changing the way they connect to developers and allow access to the Stupeflix video creation suite API. Whereas it was somewhat cost prohibitive in the past, they are now lowering the price of both access and video rendering to commoditize video creation. Previously, says Jean-Francois Boudier, Stupeflix co-founder and CTO, access to the API was dependent on requirements definition, commercial proposal, negotiation, contracts, signatures, etc.

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Stupeflix Reworks Video Creation API Access To Commoditize Video Creation

Two years ago, I took a look at Vzaar , an online video hosting & delivery platform, and gave them a fairly good write up . But a lot of things can change in two years, just look at ReelSEO for example, and so, I thought it time I roll back into Vzaar and see what’s what.

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Vzaar: An Affordable, Customizable Business Video Platform

The Wall Street Journal announced it will launch a YouTube channel today that features “soft news” instead of “hard news.”  The channel will showcase “Off Duty,” a daily lifestyle show based on the eponymous section of WSJ Weekend, the Journal’s Saturday paper. Hosted by Wall Street Journal reporter Wendy Bounds, “Off Duty” will offer on-demand content from many of its namesake’s features, as well as other culture coverage from the Journal – from food to fashion, music and movies, travel to tech.

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Wall Street Journal Launches ‘Off Duty’ YouTube Channel

LG would not be where they are if they had always placed all their eggs in one basket and that was never more evident than it was when I visited with them at CES.

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LG Hedging Its Bets With Two Connected TV Platforms

GetHired.com has officially launched and gives job candidates a way to show themselves off to potential employers with the power of online video resumes. It’s no big surprise but it is definitely an interesting use of online video. Online video is all the rage, we even had our own awards ceremony at CES for original web series (IAWTV), so what better way to get yourself out there and marketable as a potential employee than to use the major Internet trend, online video?

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GetHired Gives Job Seekers & Employers Video Resume Capabilities

Remember all the hustle and bustle there was to get HTML5 off the ground and implement immediately even though there was no standard codec, it lacks tons of functionality and all that? LongTail Video does and they broke down just where it all stands now in a nice, informative way in the LongTail Video State of HTML5 Video . They went through six key factors on how HTML5 Video is doing presently to give the industry an overhead look at how things are progressing and I have to say, in some areas it’s quite grim

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The State Of HTML5 Video – Growing, But Also Kind Of A Mess

Encoding.com just released new numbers pulled from Vid.ly which show that Android is gaining on iOS in terms of video viewing. It’s no surprise as the operating system has been steadily stealing market share quarter after quarter and is available on far more different devices than iOS.

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Android Video Viewing Gaining On iOS Devices

There have been several reports talking about increased effectiveness of ad campaigns when they go cross platform.

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YuMe Reports Supports Cross-Platform Video Advertising Effectiveness

Continuing the trend of screen convergence, Boxee has released the USB Live TV dongle for its Boxee boxes along with version 1.5 today. For those that don’t want a full-on premium TV subscription, but do want local channels, can now get that along with your online video entertainment without the need to buy an all new television

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Boxee Live TV Adapter – Without DVR Is It Too Little, Too Late?

According to Mediapost, streaming video ads for the Super Bowl XLVI videocast will be more than the average TV-based Super Bowl ad, around 1.5 times as much. What does that say about the importance and maturity of online video advertising? I think it might be saying “we have arrived.” Then again it could be saying, “The NFL is uber-greedy!” Streaming Video Ads For Super Bowl XLVI Set At $55 CPM Who would pay a rate so high that it is estimated to be around $20 higher CPM than the TV ads?

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Streaming Super Bowl Ad CPM Higher Than TV Ads